Rashaunda M. Henderson was born in Shreveport, LA. She received the BSEE degree from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee AL, in 1992, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2007 she worked as a device engineer in semiconductor research and development at Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor. In Fall 2007, she joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Dallas as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include microwave circuit design and developing novel processing techniques to integrate and package millimeter-wave silicon-based integrated circuits.